MONGO SANTAMARIA - Mongo Introduces La Lupe (Reissue with 2 Bonus tracks) - LP - 180g Vinyl [FEB 7]

LP - Limited Edition 180g Virgin Vinyl featuring the complete album plus two bonus tracks. Only 500 copies pressed in this edition. 

Ramon "Mongo" Santamaria Rodriguez ("Mongo" is Cuban slang for Ramon) is best known for being the composer of the jazz standard 'Afro Blue, recorded by John Coltrane among others. In 1950 he moved to New York where he became an integral figure in the fusion of Afro-Cuban rhythms with R&B and soul, paving the way for the boogaloo era of the late 1960s. Mongo's 1963 hit rendition of Herbie Hancock's 'Watermelon Man' was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

This release presents Mongo's complete LP 'Mongo Introduces La Lupe', on which he is joined on some tracks by singer Guadalupe Victoria Yoli Raymond, popularly known as, "La Lupe."

Tracklist: 

Side A
1    Besito Pa Ti
2    Kiniqua
3    Canta Bajo
4    Uncle Calypso
5    Montuneando
6    Linda Guajira *

Side B
1    Que Lindas Son
2    Oye Este Guaguanco
3    Este Mambo (This Is My Mambo)
4    Quiet Stroll
5    Watermelon Man *

* = Bonus tracks